wi0 (4.11) <=> rum0 (7.0)

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Thu Feb 21 15:57:41 UTC 2008


On Thursday 21 February 2008 02:46:09 am Lystopad Oleksandr wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have two FreeBSD boxes. One with 4.11 and wi0 device, and another
> with 7.0-PRE with rum0 device. I need to connect wi0 and rum0 via
> adhoc mode. 7.0 cant find wi0 device with ifconfig rum0 scan.
>
> Please, help me to connect this two networks together.
>
> ifconfig rum0:
> rum0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> 1500 ether 00:c0:a8:f4:53:18
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps mode 11b <adhoc>
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid MYNET channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b) bssid 00:02:2d:30:2d:22
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 scanvalid 60 bgscan
>         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1
>         roaming MANUAL
>
> ifconfig wi0:
> wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 10.xx.xx.10 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 10.xx.xx.11
>         ether 00:02:2d:30:2d:22
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps
> <adhoc>) status: associated
>         ssid MYNET 1:RS
>         stationname my-name
>         channel 1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
>         wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

I'm pretty sure you only want one of the adapters in ad-hoc mode. The 
other one can just be in station mode.

JN


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